Sentences with phrase «wind farm development»

This moratorium unnecessarily puts this combined $ 700 million in investment in serious jeopardy while sending a terrible signal to potential future wind farm developments in the state.

I would hope and expect that national parks and conservation parks would be kept free of wind farm developments.

Another clue to the scale of future wind farm development can be seen in transmission lines under construction and being planned.

Wind farm development in the south has been slow.

At the same time, the government is providing incentives for wind farm development in less - windy areas nearer to population centers.

Meanwhile on Monday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the federal government would grant $ 50.5 million over five years to spur offshore wind farm developments on the East Coast.

With advanced turbine technology, wind farm development within the Southeast is also now a reality.

Subsequently, a group of residents asked the township board to adopt a moratorium on wind farm developments so the community could revise a wind zoning ordinance adopted in 2010.

There is a Net site by Wind Farm Developments.

Some fish habitats off the coasts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York are protected from wind farm development.

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He is responsible for oversight of Heritage in relation to technical engineering aspects of wind farm development projects.

But a new report released by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory highlight the advances in wind turbine technology that make wind farm development here almost inevitable.

Under «Impact of farming activities», this document states «Host landholders generally find that wind farm development does not significantly impact farm operations.»

Stephen Boutwell, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which oversees wind farm developments in federal waters, says his agency is addressing concerns raised by fishermen.

There has been conflict in Champaign, Seneca, Hardin, and Logan counties regarding wind farms and some, including our neighbors in Auglaize and Mercer counties, made it impossible for the initial wind farm development by never establishing and Alternative Energy Zone (AEZ)-- a plain invitation to go elsewhere.

Campaigners welcomed the report and said there should be an immediate halt to wind farm developments until the potential health impacts were better understood.

These preferences are a point of contention with activists like Kevon Martis, who has helped people in Michigan and Ohio oppose local wind farm development.

Previous stories in Michigan Capitol Confidential have reported on township elections that effectively prohibited wind farm developments.

Some communities welcome wind farm developments, but in others, proposals for wind farms have led to legal and political strife.

Andrew Whitaker — News.Scotsman — April 30, 2013 PROPOSALS to protect large parts of wilderness and unspoilt land in Scotland from controversial wind farm developments will be unveiled by government ministers today.

For those fighting wind farm developments, you may be interested to know — but not surprised to hear — Infigen Energy Development Manager Jonathan Upson is a former Babcock and Brown employee.

Residents of Grey Highlands are banding together to fight a couple of proposed wind farm developments.

On 2009/06/18 AGL announced that they had bought the rights «to develop a smaller wind farm in Queensland which would allow AGL to expand its existing wind farm development at Crows Nest near Toowoomba, by 20 turbines.

He wrote that «a growing body of evidence that wind farm noise could have health effects has prompted Queensland Health to call for caution when approving wind farm developments.»

Improved wind forecasting methods could also help make offshore wind farm development cheaper.

Until now, these have been in small solar development in Israel (16 small PV facilities) and last year one was announced in Italy, and this marks the company's first foray into wind farm development.

In South Australia, for example, southern Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas, Kangaroo Island and the Limestone Coast (south - eastern SA) would have more wind farm development if the existing transmission lines had more capacity.

Research, meteorology and advanced wind turbine technology have finally enabled economic wind farm development in the south.

Worth County resident Merlin Bartz, who has wind turbines on his property, requested the project be approved and said wind farm development has substantially increased Worth County's tax base and created jobs.

Wind Farm Developments erected a 50m mast with anemometers about 2005 and later stated that they confirmed the project as viable.

It is something to build on, to capture the knowledge for future full - scale wind farm developments.»

«The concept is simple: a local community co-operative has established to raise funds and purchase a wind turbine in a commercial wind farm development project.

The Australian Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC) in their National Wind Farm Development Guidelines draft of July 2010 stated that:

Wind farms have been actively expanding in Ontario since the Ontario Green Energy Act, 2009, took away municipal power to block wind farm development, and a Feed in Tariff for selling the resulting power provided a solid economic case.

That could set the stage for other offshore wind projects all along the East Coast as the federal government expands the waters available for new offshore wind farm development.

No further wind farm development can take place on Eyre or Yorke Peninsulas, where there is a very high quality wind resource, because of the lack of suitable power transmission lines.

Is it now seems official: is wind energy is now a partisan technology, given the enthusiasm of the NSW conservative government and the SA conservative opposition to fall in behind the Victorian conservative government's crackdown on wind farm developments.

«In the meantime, the precautionary principle requires that all future wind farm development should be put on hold, pending the outcome of the study.

The shared economic benefits of wind farm development in Australia could deliver an estimated $ 10.5 billion back to regional communities, a new report has found.

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While the wind farm development has faced a series of hurdles in recent years, the farm is supposed to be completed in 2017 and deliver 300 megawatts to the Kenyan grid.

Information from these agencies can «either support, or be used to avoid, wind farm development in the identified areas,» Interior said.